How to Use windswept in a Sentence

windswept

adjective
  • The sailors looked windswept and tired.
  • Put her out on the windswept moors!
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The site looked like the rest of the ice sheet—flat, white, windswept.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The plains are windswept and frozen, but Alvarez wasn’t cold.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • Thomas shook his head as the windswept sediment forms tiny dunes.
    — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Scenic pullouts line the road, which tops out amid windswept alpine tundra.
    — Christopher Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Leave the top relaxed and undone with a few wispy pieces for a more windswept feel.
    — Jennifer Tzeses, Woman's Day, 19 Aug. 2013
  • Soft and slightly wavy, this bob with windswept bangs has a retro and graceful look.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Birds everywhere, windswept sky and sea.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Above ground, Maeve's party walks through windswept hills, with snow on the ground.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2018
  • Posed with a windswept bob, this photo lives rent-free in many black women’s minds.
    — Jailynn Taylor, Essence, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Hike windswept cliffs where shipwrecks whisper.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The island was rugged and windswept, a thin place where the noise of others had grown faint.
    — Leslie Jamison, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The main house, a long, low-slung black fortress clad in wood and glass, hunkers down on a windswept plateau.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Travel through windswept fields pulled straight out of Kurosawa movies.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
  • Despite the hardship, life on the windswept isle seems idyllic.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Despite the hardship, life on the windswept isle seems idyllic.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Check out some of the more windswept but quieter beaches on the east side of the island, too.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
  • His house, like most in the district of steep, windswept hills, was too open to the elements.
    — Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The South ranges from windswept mountains to the balmy Gulf Coast.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The South ranges from windswept mountains to the balmy Gulf Coast.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The rolling landscape means that some parts of the 35-acre grounds sit in windswept hollows.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
  • Runners come from all over the world to race through the thin air and windswept canyons of Mustang.
    — Joe Baur, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Wander windswept dunes where art meets ecology.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Most have been barred from traveling to the windswept coasts of Normandy.
    — Time, 6 June 2020
  • Atins is also an idyllic windswept oasis to lose a few days or tuck away and write a novel.
    — Kevin Raub, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
  • On the rocky, windswept coast of Iceland, the puffins are returning.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The clip also highlights Klum's makeup-free face and windswept beach hair.
    — Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • The windswept viewpoint is a stark contrast to the mossy canyons found at the beginning of the drive.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The mines outside of town set the pace, explosives blasting the windswept ground to free the coal.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2020

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